After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain ...

A South Korean truth commission called for the country to apologize to those who were sent abroad “like luggage” so that adoption agencies could profit. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul ...

South Korea battles worst ever wildfires as death toll hits 28 Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst ...

Seoul — South Korea's worst wildfires on record have scorched a massive swath of the country's southeast over the past five days and killed at least 24 people, according to the national fire ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea sent around 3,000 additional troops to Russia in January and February in continued support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, South Korea ...

According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, hundreds of firefighting helicopters and around 5,000 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blazes, however, efforts to contain the blazes ...

South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been cleared of his election law violation charges at an appellate court SEOUL, South Korea -- An appeals court in South Korea overturned an ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At least 16 people died and another 19 were injured as wildfires ravaged South Korea’s southern regions amid dry weather and strong winds, government officials said ...

A person walks past houses destroyed by wildfires at a village in Yeongyang, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Yun Kwan-shik/Yonhap via AP) ...

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has been reinstated as the acting president as the Constitutional Court overturned his impeachment SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s Constitutional ...

ANDONG: Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday (Mar 27) from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster, with at least 26 ...